(n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Example Sentences:
(1) You don't really start having teenage crushes when you're a teenager – those feelings start much earlier, although you're too much of a wide-eyed faun to properly identify what they are.
(2) 1.1.1.14) was studied in liver, kidney and gonads of Zenaida auriculata auriculata (golden pigeon) and of Anas platyrhynchos (creole domestic duck) from South American faunes.
(3) Faune et écosystèmes frappés par des impacts « sévères » et « généralisés ».
(4) London , Friday night If a faun could go through a needle's eye it would come out looking rather like Yves Saint-Laurent.
(5) See also Les Ballets C de la B Pina Bausch Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Now watch this A witty "composite creature" from D'Avant (2002) Sutra, with the Shaolin monks of China (2008) Apocrifu (2009) on religion and the power of the word Excerpts from Orbo Novo, "an old word for the New World", (2009) Dunas, a duet with flamenco dancer María Pagés (2009) Where to see him next Cherkaoui's Faune is part of the Spirit of Diaghilev programme on BBC4 at 7.45pm on 18 December 2009.
(6) A lengthy story in the New York Times announced him as “one of the most celebrated stage actors of his generation”, adding that “his calling card is a soulful fragility, all faun-like bearing and saucer eyes, with a teenager’s unruly mop mane”.
(7) The employment of a CDC light trap proved to be a useful tool in determining the local faune.
(8) If it disappears, all the other wildlife will go too," says Jean-Paul Burget, who set up the Sauvegarde Faune Sauvage organisation in 1993 in an attempt to save the species, subsequently lodging a complaint with the European commission in 2007.
Minotaur
Definition:
(n.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his recent book The Global Minotaur , Varoufakis claims that the notion of a surplus recycling mechanism is simple in theory and revolutionary in its implications.
(2) An Air Force Minotaur V rocket provided the ride from Nasa's Wallops flight facility.
(3) Picasso portrays himself in the 30s as the minotaur, the monster in the labyrinth.
(4) Ticket prices too, have changed – for most shows they climb into three figures, but for operas such as the recent revival of Birtwistle's The Minotaur , which sold out, prices ranged from £3 to £65, and the same is true of next week's UK premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin .
(5) Then Theseus arrived, posing as a victim but on a mission to slay the Minotaur.
(6) The Ladee spacecraft, which is charged with studying the lunar atmosphere and dust, soared aboard an unmanned Minotaur rocket a little before midnight.
(7) According to legend, Theseus once slew the Minotaur in the ruins next door, and should the truth out itself, the Bayer family perhaps fear a repeat.
(8) Shamefully few new operas are staged at Covent Garden, but two works it commissioned were winners: Thomas Adès's The Tempest in 2004; and Harrison Birtwistle's The Minotaur, premiered last year.
(9) The idea of a vengeful state that sends young people to be slaughtered came from Theseus and the Minotaur, while the games themselves are modelled on the gladiatorial contests of ancient Rome.
(10) They are closing the gates that should be open.” Alan Gibbons, one of the march’s organisers and the author of Shadow of the Minotaur and other children’s books, said: “Libraries are places of learning and opportunity.
(11) Yet the opposite position on the sexualised culture – that nothing's changed, that porn is still a minority product that you need the nuts of a minotaur to get your hands on – that is not true either.
(12) Nominations in the opera categories are shared between the Royal Opera and the English National Opera, with Covent Garden's Don Carlo and The Minotaur competing in the best new opera category against the Coliseum's Partenope and I Pagliacci.
(13) Nasa chose Wallops for Ladee because of the Minotaur V rocket, comprised of converted intercontinental ballistic missile motors belonging to the Air Force.